Debi Thomas with Leslie Gray Streeter
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Debbie Thomas: A Memoir of a Young Skater
I think that the sport recognizes with male figure skaters anyway that a lot of the muscles you need to do these jumps are stored in the ass. My favorite moment from any peanuts thing was when Pepper and Patty was ice skating. She's doing this figure skating thing and she's pretty good at it. And her music won't work. Woodstock comes to the microphone and whistles her music for her. Oh my God. I got. The amount of sort of sexual power that is being projected onto these young skaters, sometimes very young skaters who are being treated as if they have all this power... It's creepy.
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